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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> 
> >>>>>> "MD" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
> 
> MD> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic
> MD> links instead of hard links?
> 
> > Important reason why not: not all filesystems support symbolic links.
> 
> Symbolic links are about 20 years old and have withstood the test of
> time.  If a system hasn't implemented them by now, why can't it safely
> be ignored?

  Windoze.

-bp